I am a technically sophisticated Information Technology Professional with 11+ years’ experience in SharePoint administration, training, consultancy, infrastructure design, deployment, firewall administration, internal network security, and system development life-cycle in the major health care, pharmaceutical, timeshare, education, insurance, and government. I am highly skilled in directing executive level information systems implementation and execution. Proven skills in executing well defined plans and adhering to project schedules therefore ensuring effectiveness and compliance. High level of competency in providing technology-based solutions for optimizing business performance, service level agreements, executive dashboards, and resolving business issues. I have completed Bachelors of Computer Science in Telecommunications from University of Sindh, Jamshoro & Pakistan.
My key skills include User Alerts Management, SSP Configuration & Administration, System Development Life-Cycle, Training & Development, Risk Assessment & Quantification, Planning & Scheduling, Project Management and ITIL Concepts
My technical skills include
Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7/ Vista/ Me/ XP, Windows Server 2000/ 2003, and Red Hat Linux 9.0
Databases / DB Tools: SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2005, and SQL Server 2000
Desktop Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, and MS Outlook
Scripting /Markups: XML, JavaScript, HTML, XAML, CSS, JQuery, CSS, Joomla, Drupal, and Wordpress
Network /Server Technologies: Active Directory Setup, maintaining Active directory, DNS, F5 Firewall, PalloAlto, Juniper Firewall, SRX, and Splunk
Currently I am engaged with Sharjah City Municipality, Sharjah UAE, as a SharePoint / CRM Administrator, where I gather requirements and configure SharePoint 2010 architecture, SharePoint 2013 farm, as well as develop custom intranet portal for the municipality.
Play a vital role in installing and configuring the SharePoint 2010 environment for production, Staging, test, and development farms. Revise source code and recommend changes to fix memory leaks, improve page load time, click response time, and performance. Assess SharePoint 2010 farm implementation and recommend web application, site collection, content database, and application pools adjustments. Gather requirements and configure SharePoint 2010 architecture, SharePoint 2013 farm, as well as develop custom intranet portal for the municipality.
Key Achievements:
• Successfully restructured publicly facing SharePoint 2010 site based on list instances, web parts, layout pages, repeaters leveraging on C#, and Visual Studio 2010 and migrated SharePoint 2010 farms to SharePoint 2013.
• Designed and executed solution to optimize experience for MS CRM Dynamics users leveraging on SharePoint 2010 user interface, MS CRM Dynamics web services and SharePoint 2010 BDC for SQL inventory databases
• Liaised with C# and VB programmers’ team and utilized C#, .NET v3.5 and Visual Studio 2010 to develop SharePoint 2010 custom web parts, event handlers, feature receivers, timers, and email receiver handlers.
• Received Appreciation on outstanding contribution to the success of the Application of the Payment by the Sharjah Municipality collection system for Sharjah Driving Institute, eService for Drainage Suction Application and the Sharjah Municipality Public Portal.
Effectively supervised process compliance for all SDLC phases and scheduled sites and site collections for collaboration, planning my Site sites, planning for Service Applications, Web applications, content databases, sites, and sub-sites vs. libraries, libraries vs. folders vs. document sets, security boundaries, site hierarchy, and content deployment path methodology. Transformed high level documented architecture to physical architecture and determined capacity for a SharePoint farm. Shoulder the responsibility for developing and upholding end user access policy and permissions, and performing and testing routine SharePoint backups and restores. Created and maintained site collections, databases, and services, such as Shared Service Providers, and Extended Authentication providers.
Key Achievements:
• Formulated analysis reports and requirement specification and delivered SharePoint 2010 solutions about 5 government organizations which fulfilled the client requirement.
• Directed and retained mission critical SharePoint, web, and database servers hosted within the organizations own data center and offered daily support of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 in a highly collaborative team.
• Devised and executed 64 bit hardware based SharePoint 2010 Intranet and Extranet Farm Environments and assured integrity and security of SharePoint data in accordance with business needs and industry best-practices.
• Oversaw the efficient implementation of new technology solutions to various internal business units; identified project requirements and provided exceptional support. Upgraded IT infrastructure, established quality assurance standards, and recommended new products to enhance clients’ operational efficiencies.
Researched and gathered materials as well as interfaced with customer and other vendors to determine end user needs for documentation. Delivered SharePoint 2007/2010 solutions about 10 companies and translated information architecture to physical architecture to determine capacity for a SharePoint farm. Designed and implemented 64 bit hardware based SharePoint 2010 Intranet and Extranet Farm Environments. Presented support of MS Office SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010 in a highly collaborative team. Demonstrated strong organizational skills through evaluating and prioritizing end-user issues in an effort to minimize interruptions and maximize response times. Facilitated IT team to upgrade company technology and infrastructure, and provided documentation to reduce resolution time.
Key Achievements:
• Led process compliance for SDLC phases and planned site collections for collaboration, planning for zones, service/ web applications, security boundaries, site hierarchy, and content deployment path methodology.
• Held accountable for managing application development and maintaining mission critical SharePoint, web, and database servers within the company’s own data center in Pakistan.
• Performed SharePoint backups and restores and assured security of SharePoint data in accordance with business needs and industry best-practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Executed and retained search services and maintained sites and site collections, as well as all associated databases and services, including shared service and extended authentication providers.
As an IT Co-coordinator, I am managing all the computer issues like Hardware/Software installation including windows installation, making new designs for the company documentation as the management is changed, designed new logo, new theme for the documentation for sales team as well as procurement side. Having two offices in Jebel Ali and interconnected both by VPN. Also website issues to resolve, clients registration, posting database and maintaining the domain and webhosting of our organization.
Design and administer the architecture of all SharePoint farms, sites, and related resources
Perform typical SharePoint administrative activities such as back-up, restore, and site creation.
Analyze SharePoint, server, application, network, and input/output device performance.
Recommend, schedule, and perform software and hardware improvements, upgrades, patches, reconfigurations, and/or purchases.
Deploying Custom Web parts, Templates, Site Definitions and BDC integrations.
Write scripts, batch files and programs to automate systems administration tasks.
Work with other IT Staff and/or outside vendors in terms of overall system back-up and disaster recovery
Ensure the integrity and security of SharePoint data in accordance with business needs and industry best-practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
Backup Configuration, Implementation, and Monitoring.
Troubleshoot and fix SharePoint application issues and/or refer issues to outside vendors
Complete Performance Monitoring of Entire SharePoint Server farm.
Serve as the organizations consultant on advance projects and tasks.
Mentor and provide SharePoint guidance to junior members of the IT team.
As a SharePoint Web/Graphic Designer, I have to make cool designs for my organizational websites and also maintaining them as well as maintaining the domain and webhosting of our organization. I worked on www.metalbids.com, www.noblethr.com, www.logoclassified.com and other our organization’s sites. Lead designer and developer for web sites and promotional media for small businesses. Utilized contemporary design to create concise web sites for specific client needs. Site creation included use of CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Flash, online payment features, and form processing. Created and assembled web graphics, including logos and advertisements. Designed email blasts and newsletters for site launches and event announcements.
articipating in the Installation, Configuration, and Deployment of SharePoint Farms
Upgrading and Patching of SharePoint and its\' related systems
Configure Authentication and Security Configuration
Configuration, Analysis, and Tuning of Search Functions
Backup Configuration, Implementation, and Monitoring
Disaster Recovery and High Availability Planning, Configuration, and Testing
System Monitoring and Log Analysis
Performance Analysis and Tuning
Participate in escalation and support activities (being on-call)
Deploy and configure sites, lists and web parts
Create sites and sites collection and list templates
Moving content and configuration changes from Staging Environment to Production Environment
• To maintain the internal/external network Prepare the new network proposals.
• Configure and install Cisco switches, Network Administration, VLAN Management Design & Develop the Network extension,
• Configure LAN/WAN Devices, Monitoring of Network traffic.
• Configure Dialup, VPN. FTP servers, Configure Security management, performance management tools.
• Additional tasks will include multiple server setups, tape-drive backups, monitoring internet access to report unauthorized acce
• Installing OCP (Online Case Proceeding) system at Sindh High Court, Karachi and Circuit Courts Hyderabad, Sukkur and Larkana.
• Monitoring and managing OCP system at Sindh High Court, Karachi.
Responsible for designed, deployed and administrating the SharePoint/MOSS 2007 server farm consists of Web Front End, Database, Search, Index and Query Server.
Designing and deployment of SharePoint server farm/Infrastructure by implementing different Infrastructure deployment techniques.
Provide Capacity planning, Architecture and Taxonomy.
Designed a system with failover, redundancy and disaster recovery.
Troubleshoot issues related to Index, Query and Search Servers.
Designing, developing and maintaining client Sharepoint web sites.
Making enhancements to an already defined some SharePoint sites.
Resolved Databases and Security related issues.
Creating and Managing Site collections and developing custom sites templates.
Troubleshooting SharePoint Application issues.
Build basic document workflows.
Responsible for the hardware, software, upgrades, and patching of SharePoint equipment.
SharePoint Administrator